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Sex-dependent increase of movement activity in the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus following adaptation to a predator-free cave habitat. 淡水等足类水生无尾螺(Asellus aquaticus)适应无捕食者洞穴栖息地后运动活动的性别依赖性增加。
IF 2.2 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoac063
Hajriz Berisha, Gergely Horváth, Žiga Fišer, Gergely Balázs, Cene Fišer, Gábor Herczeg
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引用次数: 2
Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions. 三趾跳鼠(足足科,足足科,啮齿目)颅骨差异的最新分类修订。
IF 2.2 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoac057
Bader H Alhajeri, Zahraa Hasan, Hasan Alhaddad
{"title":"Cranial differences in three-toed jerboas (Dipodinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) according to recent taxonomic revisions.","authors":"Bader H Alhajeri,&nbsp;Zahraa Hasan,&nbsp;Hasan Alhaddad","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoac057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac057","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent phylogenetic studies amended the taxonomy of three-toed jerboas (subfamily Dipodinae), including raising subspecies to full species. Here, we use geometric morphometrics to compare scaled-shape differences in dipodine crania while considering their revised taxonomy. We sampled Dipus deasyi, D. sagitta halli, D. s. sowerbyi, Jaculus blanfordi blanfordi, J. hirtipes, J. jaculus, J. loftusi, J. orientalis gerboa, J. o. mauritanicus, and Stylodipus andrewsi. Crania were not sexually dimorphic. Common allometry explained some of the shape variation, for example, reduced braincases in larger specimens. Most operational taxonomic unit pairs differed in both size and shape. Dipus and Stylodipus clustered together based on their cranial shape. Jaculus differed from the aforementioned genera by its larger tympanic bulla, broader braincase, larger infraorbital foramen, along with reduced molars and rostra. Jaculus orientalis differed from other Jaculus by its broader face versus reduced cranial vault. Jaculus blanfordi (subgenus Haltomys) resembles members of the subgenus Jaculus more than its consubgener (J. orientalis). Jaculus loftusi, previously considered a synonym of J. jaculus, clearly differed from the latter by its shorter rostrum, smaller infraorbital foramen, and more caudolaterally expanded tympanic bulla. Jaculus hirtipes, another recent synonym of J. jaculus, resembled J. blanfordi more in scaled cranial shape than it did J. jaculus. Dipus sagitta halli and D. s. sowerbyi were indistinguishable, but they clearly differed from D. deasyi (recently raised to full species) with the latter having a larger molar row, more inflated tympanic bulla, and shorter, slenderer rostrum. Ecological explanations for detected cranial shape differences are considered, including diet and habitat (particularly substrate).","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"69 4","pages":"475-490"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/a4/a4/zoac057.PMC10443611.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10067964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: Three-frequency phenomena and chaos 蒙古仓鼠幼鼠隔离叫声的声学复杂性:三频现象和混沌
IF 2.2 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-07-21 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoad036
Marina V Rutovskaya, Ilya A Volodin, Natalia Y Feoktistova, Alexey V Surov, Anna V Gureeva, Elena V Volodina
{"title":"Acoustic complexity of pup isolation calls in Mongolian hamsters: Three-frequency phenomena and chaos","authors":"Marina V Rutovskaya, Ilya A Volodin, Natalia Y Feoktistova, Alexey V Surov, Anna V Gureeva, Elena V Volodina","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoad036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoad036","url":null,"abstract":"Studying pup isolation calls of wild rodents provides background for developing new early-life animal models for biomedical research and drug testing. This study discovered a highly complex acoustic phenotype of pup isolation calls in 4–5-days-old Mongolian hamsters Allocricetulus curtatus. We analysed the acoustic structure of 5010 isolation calls emitted in the broad range of frequencies (sonic, below 20 kHz, and ultrasonic, from 20 to 128 kHz) by 23 pups during 2-min isolation test trials, one trial per pup. In addition, we measured five body size parameters and the body weight of each pup. The calls could contain up to three independent fundamental frequencies in their spectra, the low (f0), the medium (g0) and the high (h0), or purely consisted of chaos in which the fundamental frequency could not be tracked. By presence/absence of the three fundamental frequencies or their combinations and chaos, we classified calls into six distinctive categories (Low-Frequency-f0, Low-Frequency-chaos, High-Frequency-g0, High-Frequency-h0, High-Frequency-g0+h0, High-Frequency-chaos) and estimated the relative abundance of calls in each category. Between categories, we compared acoustic parameters and estimated their relationship with pup body size index. We discuss the results of this study with data on the acoustics of pup isolation calls reported for other species of rodents. We conclude that such high complexity of Mongolian hamster pup isolation calls is unusual for rodents. Decreased acoustic complexity serves as good indicator of autism spectrum disorders in knockout mouse models, which makes knockout hamster models prospective new wild animal model of neurodevelopmental disorders.","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"2008 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Isochronous singing in 3 crested gibbon species (Nomascus spp.). 三种长臂猿(Nomascus spp.)的等时歌唱
IF 1.6 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-07-03 eCollection Date: 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoad029
Chiara De Gregorio, Teresa Raimondi, Valeria Bevilacqua, Chiara Pertosa, Daria Valente, Filippo Carugati, Francesca Bandoli, Livio Favaro, Brice Lefaux, Andrea Ravignani, Marco Gamba
{"title":"Isochronous singing in 3 crested gibbon species (<i>Nomascus</i> spp.).","authors":"Chiara De Gregorio, Teresa Raimondi, Valeria Bevilacqua, Chiara Pertosa, Daria Valente, Filippo Carugati, Francesca Bandoli, Livio Favaro, Brice Lefaux, Andrea Ravignani, Marco Gamba","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoad029","DOIUrl":"10.1093/cz/zoad029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The search for common characteristics between the musical abilities of humans and other animal species is still taking its first steps. One of the most promising aspects from a comparative point of view is the analysis of rhythmic components, which are crucial features of human communicative performance but also well-identifiable patterns in the vocal displays of other species. Therefore, the study of rhythm is becoming essential to understand the mechanisms of singing behavior and the evolution of human communication. Recent findings provided evidence that particular rhythmic structures occur in human music and some singing animal species, such as birds and rock hyraxes, but only 2 species of nonhuman primates have been investigated so far (<i>Indri indri</i> and <i>Hylobates lar</i>). Therefore, our study aims to consistently broaden the list of species studied regarding the presence of rhythmic categories. We investigated the temporal organization in the singing of 3 species of crested gibbons (<i>Nomascus gabriellae, Nomascus leucogenys</i>, and <i>Nomascus siki</i>) and found that the most prominent rhythmic category was isochrony. Moreover, we found slight variation in songs' tempo among species, with <i>N. gabriellae</i> and <i>N. siki</i> singing with a temporal pattern involving a gradually increasing tempo (a musical <i>accelerando</i>), and <i>N. leucogenys</i> with a more regular pattern. Here, we show how the prominence of a peak at the isochrony establishes itself as a shared characteristic in the small apes considered so far.</p>","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"1 1","pages":"291-297"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11255994/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41366030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together 同一种群的小红隼不会一起越冬
IF 2.2 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoad028
Jorge García-Macía, Munir Chaouni, Sara Morollón, Javier Bustamante, Lina López-Ricaurte, Juan Martínez-Dalmau, Beatriz Rodríguez-Moreno, Vicente Urios
{"title":"Lesser kestrels of the same colony do not overwinter together","authors":"Jorge García-Macía, Munir Chaouni, Sara Morollón, Javier Bustamante, Lina López-Ricaurte, Juan Martínez-Dalmau, Beatriz Rodríguez-Moreno, Vicente Urios","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoad028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoad028","url":null,"abstract":"Migratory connectivity describes the linkage between breeding and non-breeding sites, having major ecological implications in birds: one season influence the success of an individual or a population in the following season. Most studies on migratory connectivity have used large-scale approaches, often considering regional populations, but fine-scale studies are also necessary to understand colony connectivity. The lesser kestrel Falco naumanni, an insectivorous migratory raptor which form colonies during the breeding period, was considered to have strong connectivity based on regional populations. However, no small scale studies on migratory connectivity have been conducted. Therefore, we GPS-tracked 40 adult lesser kestrels from 15 different Spanish breeding colonies, estimating the overlap index between home ranges and the distance between their centroids. It was found that lesser kestrels from the same breeding colony placed their non-breeding areas at 347 ± 281 km (mean ± standard deviation) away from each other (range = 23-990), and their home ranges overlapped by 38.4 ± 23.6%. No differences between intra-colony and inter-colony metrics were found, which suggests that lesser kestrels from the same breeding cluster do not overwinter together, but they spread out and mixed independently of the colony belonging throughout the non-breeding range of the species. Ultimately, this study highlights the importance of performing connectivity studies using fine-scale approaches.","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird 非雀形目水鸟社会表型的低遗传率
2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoad024
Piotr Minias, Joanna Drzewińska-Chańko, Radosław Włodarczyk
{"title":"Low heritability of social phenotypes in a nonpasserine waterbird","authors":"Piotr Minias, Joanna Drzewińska-Chańko, Radosław Włodarczyk","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoad024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoad024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Most behavioral traits are known to be weakly heritable, possibly due to their extreme complexity and flexibility. Despite this general pattern, within-species variation in avian colony size choice has been reported to have a strong additive genetic component, but we are aware of no attempts to assess the heritability of avian sociality at the finer spatial scale. Here, we used an animal model and parent–offspring regression to quantify additive genetic variance in social phenotype (local nesting density) in a nonpasserine waterbird, the common tern Sterna hirundo. For this purpose, we used a novel experimental framework, where variation in the social environment was generated by providing birds with artificial patches of attractive nesting substrate that markedly varied in size. During 2011–2019, we collected data on social preferences for either low or high nesting density in over 250 individuals, either kin (mostly parent–offspring relationships) or non-kin recorded breeding multiple times across years. All heritability estimates of local nesting density were low (&amp;lt;0.10), irrespectively of fixed effects (sex and year) included in the models, data used in the modeling (all individuals vs. early recruits), or methodological approach (animal model vs. parent–offspring regression). We conclude that avian sociality, as measured at the local scale, may be much less heritable than colony size choice, as measured at the landscape level. Our study adds to the understanding of additive genetic variance in avian behavior, and it underlines a scale dependency in the heritability of behavioral traits.","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135046321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
On the importance of concomitant conditions: Light and conspecific presence modulate prey response to predation cue. 伴随条件的重要性:光和同种存在调节猎物对捕食线索的反应。
IF 2.2 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoac043
Łukasz Jermacz, Jarosław Kobak
{"title":"On the importance of concomitant conditions: Light and conspecific presence modulate prey response to predation cue.","authors":"Łukasz Jermacz,&nbsp;Jarosław Kobak","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoac043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Assessment of individual costs of the anti-predator defence translating into changes in population parameters is meagre. This is because prey responses are likely to be modulated by additional factors, commonly present in the environment, but often neglected in experimental studies. To evaluate the effect of external factors on prey behavior and physiology, we exposed amphipods <i>Dikerogammarus villosus</i> and <i>Gammarus jazdzewskii</i> to the predation cue of <i>Perca fluviatilis</i> in different densities and light conditions. Singletons of both species exposed to the predation cue in light modified their oxygen consumption (<i>D. villosus</i>: reduction, <i>G. jadzewskii</i>: increase) compared to their respiration in predator-free conditions. However, in the presence of conspecifics or in darkness, their respiration became insensitive to the predation cue. On the other hand, the swimming activity of prey was reduced in the presence of the predation cue irrespective of prey density and light conditions, but singletons were consistently more active than groups. Thus, external factors, such as conspecifics and darkness, constantly or periodically occurring in the field, may reduce the costs of predator non-consumptive effects compared to the costs measured under laboratory conditions (in light or absence of conspecifics). Moreover, we showed that behavioral and physiological parameters of prey may change differently in response to predation risk. Thus, conclusions drawn on the basis of single defence mechanisms and/or results obtained in artificial conditions, not reflecting the environmental complexity, strongly depend on the experimental design and endpoint selection and therefore should be treated with care.</p>","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"69 3","pages":"354-359"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/db/5f/zoac043.PMC10284044.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9713148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Sex recognition does not modulate aggression toward nest intruders in a paper wasp. 性别识别不能调节纸黄蜂对巢入侵者的攻击性。
IF 2.2 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoac051
André Rodrigues de Souza, Wilson Franca, Amanda Prato, Fábio Santos do Nascimento
{"title":"Sex recognition does not modulate aggression toward nest intruders in a paper wasp.","authors":"André Rodrigues de Souza,&nbsp;Wilson Franca,&nbsp;Amanda Prato,&nbsp;Fábio Santos do Nascimento","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoac051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac051","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During social interactions, the behavior of an individual often depends on the sex of its social partner. Many animal societies have males and females that play very different behavioral roles, although they coexist and interact non-sexually. At specific phases of the colony cycle, social wasp females and males are contemporaries within a nest, they often interact, although mating occurs mostly off the nest, therefore providing an opportunity to test sex discrimination in contexts other than classical sexual ones. We performed a lure presentation experiment to test if <i>Mischocyttarus metathoracicus</i> discriminate between conspecifics of the 2 sexes during on-nest social interactions. Female wasps discriminated conspecific sex during experimentally simulated nest intrusions. Visual and chemical cues may account for this sex discrimination. Despite sex discrimination (evidenced by differential inspective behavior from the nest females toward the female and the male lures), female wasps were as aggressive toward lures of both sexes. In the female-dominated hymenopteran societies, males are often subordinate and not aggressive on nest, resulting in females directing less aggression to them compared to other females. Instead, <i>M. metathoracicus</i> males and females are both aggressive toward nestmates, so they might be perceived as similar threat during on-nest social interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"69 3","pages":"324-331"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/33/bb/zoac051.PMC10284108.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9710385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Nestling sex ratio is unaffected by individual and population traits in the griffon vulture. 雏鸟性别比不受个体和种群特征的影响。
IF 2.2 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoac046
Guillermo Gómez-López, Félix Martínez, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Martina Carrete, Guillermo Blanco
{"title":"Nestling sex ratio is unaffected by individual and population traits in the griffon vulture.","authors":"Guillermo Gómez-López,&nbsp;Félix Martínez,&nbsp;Ana Sanz-Aguilar,&nbsp;Martina Carrete,&nbsp;Guillermo Blanco","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoac046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Variation in offspring sex ratios is a central topic in animal demography and population dynamics. Most studies have focused on bird species with marked sexual dimorphism and multiple-nestling broods, where the offspring sex ratio is often biased due to different individual or environmental variables. However, biases in offspring sex ratios have been far less investigated in monomorphic and single-egg laying species, and few studies have evaluated long-term and large-scale variations in the sex ratio of nestling vultures. Here, we explore individual and environmental factors potentially affecting the secondary sex ratio of the monomorphic griffon vulture <i>Gyps fulvus</i>. We used information collected at three breeding nuclei from central Spain over a 30-year period (1990-2020) to analyse the effects of nestling age, parental age, breeding phenology, conspecific density, population reproductive parameters, and spatial and temporal variability on nestling sex. Sex ratio did not differ from parity either at the population or the nuclei level. No significant between-year differences were detected, even under highly changing conditions of food availability associated with the mad-cow crisis. We found that tree nesting breeders tend to have more sons than daughters, but as this nesting behavior is rare and we consequently have a small sample size, this issue would require additional examination. Whereas further research is needed to assess the potential effect of breeder identity on nestling sex ratio, this study contributes to understanding the basic ecology and population dynamics of Griffon Vultures, a long-lived species with deferred maturity and low fecundity, whose minor deviations in the offspring sex ratio might imply major changes at the population level.</p>","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"69 3","pages":"227-235"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/6d/26/zoac046.PMC10284052.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9710388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Repellent effect of synanthropic house mouse urine odor on small forest mammals. 同体家鼠尿臭对森林小型哺乳动物的驱避作用。
IF 2.2 2区 生物学
Current Zoology Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoac048
Igor A Zhigarev, Vasiliy V Alpatov, Dmitry A Shitikov, Maria V Nekrasova, Olga G Alekseeva, Elena V Kotenkova
{"title":"Repellent effect of synanthropic house mouse urine odor on small forest mammals.","authors":"Igor A Zhigarev,&nbsp;Vasiliy V Alpatov,&nbsp;Dmitry A Shitikov,&nbsp;Maria V Nekrasova,&nbsp;Olga G Alekseeva,&nbsp;Elena V Kotenkova","doi":"10.1093/cz/zoac048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we examined the effect of synanthropic house mouse (<i>Mus musculus</i>) urine odor on catching probability of small mammals to live traps. We conducted a series of field experiments in August 2016 and 2017 in a natural forests of the northwestern Moscow Region (Russia). Small mammals were trapped at two 4-ha fields using capture-mark-recapture technique by setting 200 live traps (100 points, 2 traps per point) within each field. One trap in each pair was odorless (control) with bait only, whereas the other one was odor-baited with 20 μL of the urine of a synanthropic house mouse. Further analysis was based on the data collected from 2 rodent species (bank vole <i>Myodes glareolus</i>, herb field mouse <i>Apodemus uralensis</i>) and 3 shrew species (common shrew <i>Sorex araneus</i>, Laxmann's shrew <i>Sorex caecutiens</i>, and Eurasian pygmy shrew <i>Sorex minutus</i>). As a result, only bank voles significantly avoided odor-baited live traps. Using generalized linear mixed models, we showed that the choice of a trap by bank voles depended on their age, whereas the probability of repeated capture to a certain live trap was related to their prior experience. We discuss the possible role of components of synanthropic house mouse urine in the population management of exoanthropic small mammals.</p>","PeriodicalId":50599,"journal":{"name":"Current Zoology","volume":"69 3","pages":"315-323"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/05/2e/zoac048.PMC10284046.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9704144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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